Ciaphas Cyne
HUG NATION
Knight's of the Black Sun
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Posted - 2013.08.09 22:56:00 -
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Daichi Yamato wrote:boarding ships is unlikely to be practical under the circumstances that it either provides an 'i lose' situation to anyone who doesnt carry around marines, or it isn't realistic in the way that a dust team has to be formed and prepared in the time it takes a ship to die (literally seconds).
just to reinforce my point, boardings only happen very rarely in real life, and mostly by parties against undefended vessels (pirates vs cruise or transports). there are no combat situtaions where boarding parties have been used because it is a whole lot more practical to just blow ur enemies to pieces.
pretty much it in a nutshell. Rare on water, even rarer in space.
The OP is trying to find anyway possible to get DUST players into EVE space ships and it just does not work. Not from an RP perspective and certainly not from a gaming perspective. As other players have mentioned before, no capsuleer would allow their ship to be taken under any circumstance. Air locks open/climate control/reverse engine flush/self destruct/a standing crew much larger than any DUST team you could assemble... what ever it is, nobodies getting their ship taken from them in space by a boarding party.
It seems like it would be fun to include DUST players in our space battles, but let them fight on the planets, we can fight in the heavens. Theres just no reason you would inject soldiers into an enemy craft without thousands of numbers and full power armor(ala space marines in 40k).
What would seem much more realistic and much more balanced gameplay wise (because making mercs mandatory is not fun) is to have them be limited to cargo hold interactions. stealing a ships cargo is much easier than storming the bridge. especially when the ship is crewed by thousands.
Also loose all that nonsense about having to be in structure to board. again it makes no sense from an RP point of view and its just an awkward fix to the problems inherent in ship stealing. Take away ship stealing, and you dont need that whole thing.
If your boarding craft can approach its target, bore a whole through the armor and hull and steal some cargo, great! give them a two minute time limit before theyre caught and destroyed automatically by the ships crew to steal as much as they can carry. Each DUSTer taking a set limit of weight off the ship if they make it in time. |
Ciaphas Cyne
HUG NATION
Knight's of the Black Sun
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Posted - 2013.08.09 23:02:00 -
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Bienator II wrote:The Aliax wrote:This makes me think of playing football and running for to goal line, then stopping at the one yard line and playing a game of chess to see if im gonna score.
yeah. but everybody can kill you while you play chess and winning the chess game gives more points as running over the line. Comparisons like that don't work very well.
actually, that seems like a very sensible comparison, and it works for me very well :) maybe you didnt read it correctly
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